The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-24

american heCIeD, concerning CnlS So
called New Orthodoxy. The first was
by Rev. Newman Smyth, in which he
said 1.-THE church was not made for
theology, but theology was made for
the church; :" and he further suggested
the propriety of modifying the old ORTIZ
cdoxy in reference to Christ's, atone
ment and human destiny. He did not
even propose that the old orthodoxy
should be done away, but that it should
be modified. Rev. Howard Crosby,
d. D., and leading representative of
the Presbyterian church, in another of
those articles replied in these words:
81 know of no creeds differing from
the beliefs of those that hold them,
excepting in very small and unimport-
ant points. 1 can speak for my own
credible formulas Of the Presbyte-
rian church. 1 know of no Presbyte-
rian minister or person who does not
accept them as an entirety.
AS regards the great subjects that have
agitated the public mind of late, namely,
the atonement of Christ by sacriicial
death and the eternity of future pun
ishment, know of no Presbyterian in
our country who does not accept them
both; and 1 think all the talk about
making new creeds, because of the
errors of the old ones, is the talk of
men outside of the church, or of worldly
minded men inside the church, who
seek philosophical, rather than a
Scriptural religion" No man knows
more about the Presbyterian church
than DIR. Crosby; and if his testimony
is to be believed, the New Ortho
doxy" is not likely to be ever intro
duced into the Presbyterian church,
and all the circumstances of the case
corroborate the witness.
Rev. Jesse B. Thomas, D. D., and
leading representative of the Baptist
church, in another one of those articles,
replied to DR.. Smyth in these words
"The notion of any recently developed
serious and widely-spread discrepancy
between creed and opinion in Evangel
ical Christendom, is in my opinion
greatly exaggerated. The Evangelical
Alliance, representing the various de-
nominations adopted in 1916, a succinct
statement of doctrine, since confirmed
by the American branch, and which, as
| understand, still remains their I'M
questioned basis of agreement. This
statement is explicit and unequivocal
in its affirmance of the views recently
depravity of human nature in conse-
quence of the fall. 1t affirms
the fnality and hopelessness of the
condition of those who die in their SINS"
Rev. j. o. Peck, D. D., speaking for
the Methodist church, and in reply to
DR.. Newman Smyth, said: "On the
righteousness of Christ's sufferings and
death there is substantial una
nimity. y = No clergyman who dis
believed, and preached his disbelief in
future punishment, or who preached
second probation, or restoration, could
maintain his footing among us"
Testimony of this character could be
produced sufficient to fill a volume.
Not only is the old not "done away"
but it denies the existence and even
the coming of the new. The men and
women who are to create the new ORTIZ
odoxy are yet heretics, and must look
toward to time when s'that which is
in part shall be done away" and then,
and not till then, shall they realize the
presence of that which is perfect. 1
believe that sometime,
There Will be New Orthodoxy,
and, as compared with the old Ortho-
doxy it will be perfect; it will not
contain any portion of the funda-
damental doctrines of old orthodoxy.
The doctrine of 1.-The Trinity" will be
determined to be as unseriptural as
: it is absurd and ridiculous; the doc
trine of 1.-THE Fall of Man" will be
voted to be in conflict with Gods word,
and of bad moral tendencies the doc
Urine of 1.-THE Vicarious Atonement'
will be denounced as God dishonoring,
unjust and contrary to the letter and
spirit of Holy Writ; and the doctrine
of Future Rewards and Punishments"
will be forever laid away among the rel
les of the paganism from which it was
taken, and will never again make the
heart of the righteous sad." In the
place of these dead traditions of men,
the coming churches will authorita-
lively proclaim new and living con-
ception of divine truth, free from doubt,
skepticism and the unsettled specula-
tion of philosophy.
This new orthodoxy, when it comes,
will plant itself upon the Bible, and its
doctrines will be Bible doctrines. 1t
will affirm that the utterances Of the
Scriptures of the Old and New Tesla
ment, concerning God, man, duty, and
destiny, are ultimate authority from
which there can be no appeal. 1t will
affirm that there is one God the Father,
maker and ruler of all things, whose
very nature is love; that every soul of
man is the child of this God, was Gre
ated in does now hear and will for